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The Cortina Inn and Resort Looks All Nice and Cozy But It's Not

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 103 US Route 4 [map], Killington, VT, United States, 05751
April 4, 2008 at 3:30 PM | by jennm | 5 Comments

During today's lesson you may get a bit choked up, find your body temperature rising and a shiver shooting down your spine. If you haven't guessed already, we're talking about Legionnaires disease, symptoms of which include coughing, high fever and chills.

Similar to pneumonia, Legionnaires was first identified in 1976 and got its name after a spate of guests at what is now the Park Hyatt Philadelphia--who happened to be attending an American Legion convention--contracted the disease. It was later discovered the bacteria spawned from the hotel's cooling tower.

Why should you care? Because Vermont's Cortina Inn & Resort was closed yesterday after water tests showed evidence of the bacteria, confirming it as a source of recent cases. It is not yet known when the hotel will reopen, thereby squashing any hopes hotel guests may have had of catching the last ski runs of the season.

Hotels without climate control systems are known breeding grounds for the disease, but lest you think quaint country inns like the Cortina are only susceptible (we're unawares if the hotel has climate control), the last reported outbreak of Legionnaires occurred as recently as last month, at a Quality Inn in Orlando.

Perhaps climate control could be the hot new amenity hotels can start touting?

[Photo: pjuliano]

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  1. CourtneyMay

    HotelChatter Member

    Re: The Cortina Inn and Resort Looks All Nice and

    After looking at that picture, I am not sure I would call it nice and cozy.
    April 4, 2008 at 3:34 PM
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  1. iamdanny

    HotelChatter Member

    Re: The Cortina Inn and Resort Looks All Nice and

    i almost barfed by looking at that hotel room!
    April 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM
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  1. juliana

    HotelChatter Editor

    Re: The Cortina Inn and Resort Looks All Nice and

    i know. i think that decor should be a health violation. the wallpaper matches the nightstand cloth or whatever you call it. barf is right!

    but you know someone at the hotel was like "pink flowers everywhere will be so cozy!"

    April 4, 2008 at 3:43 PM
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  1. kaffaleen

    HotelChatter Member

    poor Cortina

    this is so sad!!  I stayed at the Cortina Inn 3 and 1/2 years a go and I have been talking about it ever since.  It was one of the nicest places I have ever stayed and the picture does not do it justice.  I doubt it is even one of their rooms.  I certainly hope they put this behind them and are up and running again soon.  I plan on coming back!!
    March 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM
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  1. kaffaleen

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    retraction

    It WAS a nice place.  I have just read reviews from this past year and apparently, new owners have let go down the shitter.  I am very sad about this news.

    http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g57302-d82590-r23292877-Cortina_Inn_Resort-Killington_Ver mont.html#REVIEWS

    March 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM
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